# Deaths in September 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2003.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## September 2003
### 1

* Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor (Gone with the Wind, Babes in Arms, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).
* Pasquale Buonocore, 87, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
* Albert Frey, 90, German SS commander during World War II and author, suicide by gunshot.
* Terry Frost, 87, British artist.
* Eulalio González, 81, Mexican actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
* John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist.
* John Gray, 66, British diplomat.
* Jayant Pathak, 82, Indian poet and literary critic.
* Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Jack Smight, 78, American theatre and film director, cancer.
* Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.
* Mildred Thompson, 67, American artist.

### 2

* George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.
* Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
* Maria Manton, 92, French painter.
* Ptolemy Reid, 91, Guyanese veterinarian and politician, prime minister (1980-1984).
* Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player (FireHouse, Gregg Allman Band, Santana), suicide.
* Peter West, 83, British BBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.

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* Ray Davis, 88, United States Marine Corps four-star-general, heart attack.
* Alan Dugan, 80, American poet.
* Paul Jennings Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist, execution by lethal injection.
* Rudolf Leiding, 88, German chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company.
* Charles Liebman, 68, American political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel.
* Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player (basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Ilias Petropoulos, 75, Greek author, folklorist and urban historian, cancer.
* Mohsin Zaidi, 68, Indian Urdu poet.

### 4

* Ben Aris, 66, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Stepping Out).
* Lola Bobesco, 82, Romanian-Belgian violinist.
* Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.
* Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.
* Charles A. Gabriel, 75, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Alzheimer's disease.
* David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
* Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.

### 5

* Yūji Aoki, 58, Japanese manga artist, lung cancer.
* Kir Bulychev, 68, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, critic and historian, cancer.
* Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
* Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario and festival organizer.
* Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-American singer and entertainer, colorectal cancer.
* Miloš Minić, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian communist politician.
* James Rachels, 62, American philosopher, cancer.
* C. H. Sisson, 89, British writer and poet.

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* Charles Edward Bennett, 92, American politician (U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd and 3rd congressional districts).
* Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American mobster (Chicago Outfit).
* Jules Engel, 94, American filmmaker, visual artist, and film director.
* Marie Foster, 85, American civil rights movement leader.
* Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021), multiple myeloma.
* Ari Guðmundsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic swimmer and ski jumper.
* Mamohato of Lesotho, 62, Lesotho Queen Mother and politician.
* Maurice Michael Otunga, 80, Kenyan Catholic prelate and cardinal.
* Louise Platt, 88, American theater, film, and TV actress.

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* Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric, heart attack.
* Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.
* Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
* Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplished medallic artists".
* Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician (Member of Parliament for Manurewa, Papakura).
* Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter ("Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"), cancer.

### 8

* Herbert Gentry, 84, American expressionist painter.
* Marc Honegger, 77, French musicologist and choirmaster.
* Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress (Caillou, 15/Love, What's with Andy?), road accident.
* Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian diver and Olympian.
* Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.
* Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.

### 9

* Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused on nuclear fusion and particle physics.
* David Applebaum, 51, American-Israeli physician, suicide bomb victim.
* Reginald Smith Brindle, 86, British composer and writer.
* Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.
* Joaquim Homs, 97, Spanish composer.
* Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), esophageal cancer.
* Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, 50, Pakistani musician.
* Aleksandr Moiseyev, 76, Russian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
* Edward Teller, 95, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".
* Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.
* Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia.

### 10

* Larry Allen Hayes, 54, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide by stabbing.
* Boris Meissner, 88, German lawyer and social scientist.
* Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.

### 11

* Shafilea Ahmed, 17, British-Pakistani girl, suffocation.
* Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer (men's flyweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics) and referee.
* Nicholas DiOrio, 82, Italian-American association football player, colorectal cancer.
* Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister, stabbed.
* Antti Nurmesniemi, 76, Finnish designer.
* John Ritter, 54, American actor (Three's Company, Clifford The Big Red Dog, 8 Simple Rules), Emmy winner (1984), aortic dissection.

### 12

* Jack Burkitt, 77, English football player.
* Johnny Cash, 71, American Hall of Fame country singer ("Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire"), diabetes.
* Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.
* Freddy Turner, 89, South African rugby player.

### 13

* George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player (Northwestern, Boston Patriots), bone cancer.
* Vítor Damas, 55, Portuguese football player, cancer.
* Howard D. Graves, 64, United States Army officer, cancer.
* Reza Beyk Imanverdi, 67, Iranian actor and director, lung cancer.
* Kaino Lempinen, 82, Finnish gymnast and Olympic medalist.
* Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician, Governor of Indiana (since 1997), stroke.
* Arthur Rowe, 67, English Olympic track and field athlete.
* Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).

### 14

* Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.
* Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher, suicide.
* John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
* Yetunde Price, 31, American half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.
* Kurt Heinrich Wolff, 91, German-American sociologist.

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* Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American television evangelist, pneumonia.
* Paul Granlund, 77, American sculptor.
* Errol Hill, 82, Trinidad and Tobago writer, playwright, actor.
* Josef Hiršal, 83, Czech author, poet and novelist.

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* Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra).
* Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
* John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and academic, cancer.
* Sergio Ortega, 65, Chilean composer, pianist, poet, and politician, cancer.
* Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor (High Noon, Rawhide) and singer ("The Purple People Eater"), leukemia.

### 17

* Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
* Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.
* Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor, epileptic seizure.
* Ljubica Marić, 94, Yugoslav/Serbian classical composer.
* Raymond Milton, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.
* George Sawaya, 80, American actor and stuntman.
* Neal Wood, 81, American-British political theorist and author.

### 18

* Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized in real analysis, lymphoma.
* Erich Bäumler, 73, German football player and manager.
* Jean Dieuzaide, 82, French photographer.
* Richard Alden Howard, 86, American botanist and plant taxonomist.
* Bob Mitchell, 76, British politician.
* Don Reese, 52, American gridiron football player (Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints), liver cancer.
* Sergey Smirnov, 43, Russian Olympic track and field athlete.

### 19

* Johnny Best, 89, American jazz trumpeter.
* Anatoly Bogatyrev, 90, Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher.
* Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, lung cancer.
* Emil Fackenheim, 87, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
* Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
* Kenneth Erwin Hagin, 86, American preacher.
* Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer and Crohn's disease.
* Arthur Kinoy, 82, American attorney and civil rights leader.
* Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
* Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.

### 20

* Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian and life peer, known for his biography of Benjamin Disraeli.
* Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor (The War Lover, The Dirty Dozen, Heavenly Pursuits), heart attack.
* Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan football player.
* Stanley Fafara, 54, American child actor, complications from hernia surgery.
* Ken Khouri, 86, Jamaican record producer.
* Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder, heart attack.
* Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.
* Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe, diabetes.
* Maurizio Romano, 37, Italian voice actor, traffic collision.
* Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
* Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.

### 21

* Amédée Domenech, 70, French rugby player, hepatitis.
* Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress (Weird Science, Stealing Harvard, Subspecies).
* Robert Lochner, 84, American journalist, pulmonary embolism.
* Lu Ann Simms, 71, American singer.
* Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.

### 22

* Arturo Ardao, 90, Uruguayan philosopher and historian.
* Howard Austen, 74, American confidant and companion of writer Gore Vidal, brain cancer.
* Maxime Brunfaut, 94, Belgian architect.
* Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Soap, Growing Pains), respiratory failure.
* Richard Lankford, 89, American politician.
* Wolfgang Peters, 74, German football player.
* Lee Robinson, 80, Australian producer, director and screenwriter.
* Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian, The Observer), colorectal cancer.

### 23

* Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.
* Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).
* Henri Cogan, 89, French actor and stuntman.
* Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
* John E. Flynn, 91, American politician.
* Theodore R. Kupferman, 83, American politician.
* Rex Robbins, 68, American actor (1776, Shaft, The Royal Tenenbaums), stroke.
* Bernie Williams, 57, American basketball player, colorectal cancer.

### 24

* Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.
* Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Nevada Smith, Hawaii Five-O).
* Herb Gardner, 68, American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
* Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955).
* Benson Masya, 33, Kenyan long-distance runner, illness.
* Derek Prince, 88, English biblical scholar and author.
* Jean Pélégri, 83, French writer and professor of literature.
* Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician.
* Edward Said, 67, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist, leukemia.

### 25

* Thomas Casey, 82, Australian politician.
* John Clayton, 63, Australian actor, cancer.
* Anthony Durante, 36, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
* Birgit Jürgenssen, 54, Austrian photographer, painter, curator and teacher.
* Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.
* Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantine scholar.
* Chuba Okadigbo, 61, Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist.
* George Plimpton, 76, American author, actor, and socialite, heart attack.
* Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
* Josef Wagner, 87, Swiss cyclist.

### 26

* Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal, 1952 Olympic gold medal).
* Inday Badiday, 59, Filipino TV host and journalist, multiple organ failure.
* Władysław Kozaczuk, 79, Polish Army colonel and intelligence historian.
* Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer, lung disease.
* Robert Palmer, 54, British singer ("Addicted to Love"), heart attack.
* Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.
* David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.

### 27

* Tom Bateman, 80, Australian politician.
* Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
* Paul Burlison, 74, American rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio, cancer.
* Olive Cotton, 92, Australian modernist photographer.
* Fay Helm, 94, American film actress.
* Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, 86, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
* Jean Lucas, 86, French racing driver.
* Donald J. Mitchell, 80, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives for New York.
* Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, Yes Sir, That's My Baby), singer and dancer, Emmy winner (1954), heart attack.
* Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal in women's 10 metre platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics).
* Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics).

### 28

* Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 70, Irish journalist, writer, and TV presenter.
* Dany Bébel-Gisler, 68, Guadeloupean sociolinguist, ethnologist and author, preservationist of Creole languages, heart attack.
* Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
* Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player, respiratory failure.
* Cork Hubbert, 51, American film and television actor, diabetes.
* Elia Kazan, 94, American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden), Oscar winner (1948, 1955).
* George Odlum, 69, Saint Lucian politician, pancreatic cancer.
* Ephraim Oshry, 94-95, Lithuanian-American Orthodox rabbi, author and Holocaust-survivor.
* Marshall Rosenbluth, 76, American academic and plasma physicist.

### 29

* Lubor Tokoš, 80, Czech actor.
* Wesley Tuttle, 85, American country music singer.
* Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist .
* Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, American anthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study of child development.

### 30

* Yusuf Bey, 67, American Black Muslim activist and leader, cancer.
* Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, esophageal cancer.
* Oreste Del Buono, 80, Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.
* Eddie Gladden, 65, American jazz drummer.
* John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.
* Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, father of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, esophageal cancer.